ELT Calendar

Saturday, November 29th, 2003

Minami Kyushu ELT Expo
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker: Beat Eisele, David Paul, Jack C. Richards, Keiko Abe-Ford, Marc Helgesen, Ritsuko Nakata, and more.
Organization: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Short description: 2003 marks the start of an exciting innovation -- the ETJ English Language Teachers' Expos 9-City Tour! Each Expo will have between four and eight rooms with concurrent presentations, and a very wide range of teaching materials on display.

Fukuoka Study Group meeting
Time: 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: The monthly IIEEC Study Group meeting welcomes all teachers who are interested in improving their teaching techniques and getting students to ask questions as well as answering them.

Rules, Patterns and Words: A Pedagogic Description of Language
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Dave Willis
Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related. He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching.

Current Concerns in Socio-Cultural Training in the Classroom
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Simon Greenall
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Simon Greenall is one of the main speakers at the annual International JALT Conference held in Shizuoka from November 21-24. He taught extensively in England and France before becoming an author in 1982.

IIEEC Christmas Workshop (Fukuoka)
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: IIEEC teacher trainer
Organization: Institute for the International English Education of Children
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Let's celebrate Christmas with a great fun party that our students will remember! You'll learn lots of activities, songs and stories that you can do with your students and other innovative ideas.